Operation Catherine [closed, Vorindun, LG, Unilisia]

[Olwean Renaissance]

Humbled and honored beyond any speech, Severina finally stammered out a response.

"It used to be Therma, but I took my stepfather's last name of Anduriel. So it's Anduriel now," she coughed and blushed.

The honors and awards were not the fate she expected. To be honest, she really thought that she would be killed by the IYS, sooner or later, if she wasn't caught, raped, tortured, and then killed by them. The odds of that seemed quite plausible, especially earlier on.

The fact was that she cared about her stepfather a lot....he was very kind to her mother and herself. If his people were under attack, she would naturally do her part. Over time, she saw the moral outrage of all of the atrocities, not just what could happen to Lord Ciran Anduriel, half-Elf, half-Spaniard that he was. She had committed to the cause and become a true Olwean by adoption.

Not to mention that she had studied history and developed an extreme hatred of all forms of oppression, slavery, and tyranny.

Severina smiled as she realized that she could travel more easily and see other places at last. She had always wanted to do so. The medal named after John Brown the American abolitionist also pleased her immensely. Everything that she had read made her admire that martyr.

"Thank you, General," she smiled through her tears.

[Libertarian Governance]

The four men walking together each had long beards and their hair had several long locks of hair. Each man wore black jackets and trousers and a white shirt. All also wore rekel, a long overcoat. They were seemingly disinterested in their surroundings as they chatted amongst themselves yet each man was carefully studying their surroundings.

They looked to be part of the beginning emigrants coming from Libertarian Governance. People who had began to arrive as soon as they could place a flight or charter a plane. There were more who dressed like them part of a conservative Jewish group of some two hundred persons who hailed from the Libertarian city of New Berlin. Plenty of people were willing to travel to this new mecca, seeking their fortunes and some apparently just seeking a new start in a different place.

The LGDF largely followed their home laws and customs and thus people freely arrived at the airfield designated as Camp Walther. The camp was as busy as any airport anywhere in the world with the abundance of military flights, the various aid agencies and private individuals all taking advantage to get here and stake their claims first.

The men rounded a corner and one who stood about 6 foot 3 inches in height spoke without emotion. Here we are. Let's go. The first man grabbed the door swinging it open as the other three men entered. They walked towards the counter. The last of their number entered and walked up to a Vorindun man in a security guards uniform. He stuttered a bit before getting out that he wanted to exchange some foreign currency. Clumsily he removed a large wad of folded bills before dropping them to the floor at the guards feet. As the guard looked down, instinctively moving to help the man retrieve his money, chaos broke out.

One of his fellow travelers had pulled a small thoroughly evil looking short barreled assault weapon from under his coat and knocked the man in front of him to the ground. As the guard looked towards the scene he reached for his sidearm but was quickly knocked to the ground unconscious by a perfect strike from a powder lead filled blackjack.

People were now screaming, one of the four leapt onto the counter in front of him shouting loudly. Get down, down on the gound, down now! He shadowed the occupants of this bank with his AWS compact carbine. Each of the men had similar weapons out now and with their long overcoats now open the banks customers and workers could see the tactical assault vest each wore, filled with additional magazines and grenades.

While two of the men moved quickly through the bank throwing the occupants on the ground a third walked towards the banks manager. A left hook stunned the man who fell against his desk. The armed man tore open the front of his shirt and snatched a key from his neck. Another left sent blood spraying from the manager's nose and dropped him to his knees.

Now two men stood pacing about the counter each scanning their weapons back and forth over the cowering crowd as their confederate used the key he had taken to open the barred door to the banks vault. He walked in ignoring the stacks of money on carts and instead looked over the safe deposit boxes. Then he stopped, removed a small glob of clay like material, broke a small piece from it and placed it on the lock of one box. A moment later a small explosion opened the door.

He removed the safe deposit box and did the same to it's lock then he spread a black bag taken from his tactical vest alongside it. Opening the lid his eyes grew bright as he looked upon a box filled with cut and polished diamonds. Quickly he dumped the stones into the bag, pulled its drawstring tight and stuffed the whole thing into his tactical vest which he quickly zipped closed before walking out the vault and then out the banks door. As he did so he tapped the shoulder of the man standing at the door watching the crowd.

Then the other two men jumped off the counter and begin to exit the building, one stopped next to a man laying on the floor wearing an expensive grey suit. He did not say a word just pointed his weapon at the man and pulled the trigger. A burst of 6.3 mm case-less rounds tore into the mans head causing a brief series of screams to erupt from the occupants. Then without a word he continued on his way and out the door. With the third tap on his shoulder the man at he door stepped backwards out the door into the street beyond.

Flavium

Thomas Michael McWain Chief of Foreign Affairs for the Free Republic stepped on to the tarmac of the airfield at Flavium. He had been sent here to speak with the Kaiser on the war and other matters as well as to meet with the leadership of Olwean Renaissance and the Unilisians and Allaneans. Diplomatic notes had gone out to all the governments requesting meetings.

The boyish looking 28 year old was met by a LGDF General and a honor guard assembled from the bases security troops. As he looked around he could see the military was drawing down their forces. Rows of Chimera and Valkyrie jets were being readied for the long ferrying home. Cargo planes were being repacked with equipment and the troops looked relaxed.

The Free Republic was interested in putting this war behind them. The fleet had withdrawn leaving but a single carrier battlegroup to patrol the coast. Over the coming weeks the military force would be drawn down to some 18,000 troops though the number of Bureau 24 agents and paramilitary personnel continued to increase. Except for those who participated in the killing of the enemy leaders, the Libertarians intended to kill or capture everyone tied to the former regime and the slave trade. Bureau 24 was to take the lead in this effort as the LGDF worked on disengaging from the theater.

Thomas intended to speak to the Kaiser about trade and exchanging ambassadors but also he hoped to establish a regular sharing of intelligence information with the Kaiser's government. Many Libertarian companies and individuals were keen to invest in the country believing themselves in a position to reap profits during the rebuilding.

Of course he would offer the Kaiser military assistance and some amount of economic aid. As for the Unilisian troops he intended a brief meeting to show his respect and the governments appreciation of their contributions in this war. Despite their past misdeeds the Free Republic intended to put all that aside and work towards normalized relations befitting an ally in the war on slavery. At some point in the future he hoped to visit the nation and facilitate trade and other relations.

As for the Allaneans, they were a stall worth ally ever since the the Libertarians had faced off with New Nicksyllvania and its onerous thugs. He had scheduled some time to honor their fallen and their victorious troops. Then there were the Elves. The Free Republic intended to provide the nations new navy with a dozen littoral combat ships as well as aid in rebuilding their enclave and their defense forces. Of course Elves were welcomed in LG and the country had more then a few dealings with their people.

Mister McWain, I am General Hammond. It is a pleasure to have you here. The General saluted as did the honor guard with their rifles. Thomas smiled affably and nodded his recognition.

General you did a good job here.

An easy battle. They didn't stand a chance with so much firepower against them. Once we had the air it was pretty simple, really. We will take you to the palace. Waving towards a Ravage SUV adorned with camouflage paint, General Hammond followed McWain to the SUV.

[The Vorindun]

VII Augustus Anno Domini 2012,

To wit, that we are resolved concerning the evildoers responsible for the financing of the deaths and destruction committed by the forces of slavery, which forces have long plundered this nation and our neighbors the Olweans, plunging both nations into needless and destructive wars to our detriment and for their own personal gain, that we do hereby decree that all properties of those persons who continue to adhere to the rebellion against our lawful government and who presently engage in operations to uphold and/or restore slavery and other forms of oppression, shall henceforth be declared forfeit to the Crown, for use in whatever purpose shall please us.

Pursuant to which decree we do hereby outlaw the subversive organizations known as the Fatherland Front, the Fascist Party of the Vorindun, the National Property Rights Party, and the National Socialist Labor Party of the Vorindun, and further decree that all of their assets and property are forfeit to the Crown. All persons formerly affiliated with said organizations are instructed to present themselves within a period of 72 hours to a notary public to formally abjure and repudiate any such allegiance, swear fealty to our person and the Crown, and forever renounce any supposed right to own sapient beings as chattel, on pain of similar proscription as well as summary execution by hanging. Slavery is henceforth deemed to be tantamount to piracy, and shall therefore forever be punished by the same manner of death.

We further decree that all corporations, financial institutions, trade-unions, guilds, associations, granges, fraternal orders, churches, synagogues, mosques, and non-profit organizations affiliated with said parties, with the late rebellion against our lawful prerogatives and authority, and/or with practices of or similar to the nefarious institution of chattel slavery, whether it be the enslavement of humans, Elves, dwarves, or any other sapient beings be deemed forfeit as front companies or subsidiaries of organized criminal syndicates and therefore nationalized by the Crown.

These same shall be deemed not to be permanent property of the State, but rather under the conservatorship of the same, to be restructured, reorganized, and either sold or transferred to the the jurisdiction of others when it be deemed necessary or beneficial to the interests of the Fatherland to do so. Stewardship of these institutions shall be assigned by the Crown to worthy persons capable of such fiduciary responsibilities.

Those persons decreed to be sworn enemies of the State, or who shall have failed to avail themselves of our amnesty window of 72 hours, shall be considered outlaws hereafter and there shall be bounties attached to their deaths. They are wanted dead, but not alive. Any who shall slay them shall have immunity from prosecution for so doing. Slavery is piracy and treason! We shall not tolerate its existence in our realm any further.

Libertas, Fraternitas, Pietas!

His Imperial Majesty, Karl I, by the Grace of God, Kaiser and Emperor of the Vorindun, King of the Goths and Germans, Patrician of the Romans, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Armed and Police Forces of the Fatherland, and Father of the Fatherland.

[Allanea]

Official Message from the Greenleaf Imperial Charity[/align]

The Greenleaf Crown Charity, an official Greater Prussian crown charity organization designated to deal with the environmental and other impacts of large-scale conflict, would like to begin offering assistance to civilians in Olwe Renaissance and in Vorindun. For this purpose, we would like to comnence an environmental study on the impact of military action, and to receive from the Vorindun government estimates on the following items:

1. Approximate infrastructure damage/scale of fighting and possible environmental damage thereof.
2. Amount of persons displaced from the fighting (including freed elves) or those rendered homeless.

Once this is provided we can commence planning activities for the purpose of environmental cleanup, infrastructure restoration, and aid to the displaced persons, including but not limited to temporary housing and medical aid.

[The Vorindun]

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Official Message from the Greenleaf Imperial Charity[/align]

The Greenleaf Crown Charity, an official Greater Prussian crown charity organization designated to deal with the environmental and other impacts of large-scale conflict, would like to begin offering assistance to civilians in Olwe Renaissance and in Vorindun. For this purpose, we would like to comnence an environmental study on the impact of military action, and to receive from the Vorindun government estimates on the following items:

1. Approximate infrastructure damage/scale of fighting and possible environmental damage thereof.
2. Amount of persons displaced from the fighting (including freed elves) or those rendered homeless.

Once this is provided we can commence planning activities for the purpose of environmental cleanup, infrastructure restoration, and aid to the displaced persons, including but not limited to temporary housing and medical aid.

This is most pleasing and acceptable. We are currently assessing damage and initial estimates are at 90 million goldmarks (30 million NSD) in public and private property loss. Ecological damage consists largely of felled and burned out wooded areas and poaching levels having doubled on pheasants and other wild fowl, as well as increased carcinogens and fossil fuels from the use of military vehicles. These may have been triple their peacetime rates.

Estimates are 800,000 to 1.2 million displaced or homeless, including some 50,000 war orphans. Please work closely with the Empress of Riemaia, Anneli XIV, in aiding the latter group. She is showing interest in funding orphanages.

Gerhard Schulman, Commissar of Foreign Affairs, His Majesty's Provisional Government of the Imperial Fatherland of the Vorindun

[Allanea]

Dear Mr. Schulman!


We at the Greenleaf Charity appreciate your difficult situation. We are about to ship to your counry a first shipment of 100,000 shipping containers. The containers will themselves be empty (except for a few that will carry equipment such as electric generators) and are intended to be used as emergency housing for 100,000 families (that is, approximately 300,000 people in husband/wife/child family units).

In addition we will be re-deploying an Intrepid-class science cruiser to the shores of your country to evaluate possible environmental damage, as well as a pair of Mercy-class hospital ships. You can begin to select victims of psychological trauma, injuries, exposure and malnutrition for handling aboard these ship, which will arrive rapidly.

Sincerely yours,

Gelmuth Alafson
Greenleaf Senior Coordinator for the Vorindun Emergency